There have existed over time people with various “super” abilities. Things that really defy the norm. This article is first in an ongoing series cataloging these abilities.
Microscopic Vision; Defined as the capability to see things that are very tiny, often portrayed in comics as a “zooming in” effect like focusing a microscope or telescope. I was able to find 2 case studies of people with microscopic vision.
First is the case of A. Schiller, a convicted forger serving time in Sing Sing in the late 19th century. Schiller died in prison and when they searched his body, on his person they found seven ordinary straight pins. Six of these pins had silver heads and one was gold. On the heads of each of these pins, which were 47/1000ths of an inch or 1.17 millimeters in diameter, was written all 65 words of the Lord’s prayer.
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These words were only viewable to the layperson (read: person without microscopic vision) under a microscope with 500x magnification. These feats took Schiller 25 years, using a tool that’s so small it’s invisible to the naked eye. He supposedly went blind from the effort, meaning he probably couldn’t see anything unless it was right in front of his face and possibly very tiny. Truly amazing works of art.
The second is David Pay, the rice writer. I first saw David on an old episode of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not years ago, and was able to find this Youtube clip of that episode:
David writes on rice without any visual aids at all, no small feat. The difference between him and Schiller up there is that he doesn’t seem to have visual problems at all. No glasses or anything. While I don’t think David’s work is as tiny as Schiller’s, it’s still very amazing. He even started to work on his own version of the Lord’s prayer on a single grain of rice, and mentions that with smaller, higher quality tools, he’d be able to write even smaller.
In the latter part of the video clip in Spanish, he writes the entire alphabet on a rice grain in 25 seconds though his record is apparently 17.
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